Children of the Tilts (ON HOLD)

V

Before I could call out, my head was forced under water again. I screamed and bubbles flushed through the water.

I knew it was a bad decision, because I was already out of breath. Blood blinded my vision as I struggled for breath. I waited a couple moments before going limp, closing my eyes.

I felt the hand on the back of my head shake me, making sure I was dead. I kept up the act, obeying to her fierce movements.

As soon as she retracted her hand and made an attempt to push my limp body into the river, I leaped up and smacked her with my injured hand, ignoring the hot pain that ran down my arm. Fai fell flat on her ass, shocked.

I ran over to the tree that she had thrown me against and wrapped my hands around the wooden staff that fit my hands like a glove. I briefly traced over the etched lettering before murmuring, "Hell yes..."

Fai jumped up and pushed her finger into an ebony bottle of pepper spray. A thin spray flew from the nozzle, directly into my eyes. A burning, stinging pain that was almost unbearable clenched my eyes in a horrible grip, racing into my brain and around my entire skull. I yelled, falling to my knees and swinging Bowtie into what ever was in front of it, which happened to be Fai's ankle.

She cried out and fell, the pepper spray dunking into the river, never to be seen again. I blinked out tears that had come naturally via the pepper spray, quickly recovering.

I grabbed Bowtie and slammed the end of it into Fai's eye socket. Fai screamed in pain and bent her leg in an uncomfortable position, arching her back to get a better angle, and kicked me right in the cojones.

I grunted, a dark pain swallowing my insides as I fell with a whimper.

Fai laughed, "You think your tough because you died? Yet as soon as I hit your special spot your on the ground. Typical." She angrily wiped the thick blood from her face, but it kept coming.

I kept up with the pain act, balling my hands into fists. In the middle of an upcoming monologue, I grabbed Bowtie and launched myself at her, but before I could lay a scratch on her, she shocked me by pulling out a gun, and before I could run, a ear drum-bursting bang crashed into my ears.

I gasped, looking around to see where and what she shot. I didn't notice that it was me until the hot blood soaked through my shirt.

Droplets of blood came from my mouth. I looked down and clutched my shoulder, my breaths becoming faster and more shallow. I felt blood soak through my fingers, as I felt my breaths getting impossibly fast, it was just a shoulder wound, but dying was scary, I could say that with full experience now.

After the noise of the shot dyed, a light buzzing remained, I had a distinct feeling it wasn't from the shot.

"Sit your ass down, neighbor." Fai growled, rearing up her flexible legs and kicking me square in the jaw. I crashed back into the tree.

"I've tasted death," Fai began, not looking at me. "My entire family is dead, and it's all your fault. I told them that robbing you would be a bad idea, but they didn't listen. And then you killed them, you monsters." Tears flowed down her cheeks, she shook them away and raised her gun, "Now, I'm gonna finish what they started."

The buzzing picked up sharply, but the blood pounding in my ears made it unrecognizable."No!" Before I could tell what was happening, shocking white light burst from my fingers, a static tingling rushing through my arms. I heard Fai's distant shriek as more light exploded from my arms. I screamed, trying to make the lighting stop. I smelt smoke, as the lightning attacked everything around it.

It finally died away, both the lightning and the buzzing in my ears, which I finally decided was my name, chanted and whispered harshly over and over again.

I blinked away smoke, I saw a distant bobbing in the river, and after quickly recovering from the explosion, I raced to it. My arm plunged into the water before I could realize what I was doing. I felt Fai grab my arm. I pulled her up, and the last thing I saw of her was her face twisted in intense pain.

She shrieked suddenly, and went back down into the water. "Fai!" I gasped, as her arm seemed to suddenly get extremely heavy.

Something was fighting against me.

Something wanted Fai.

I fought against it, groaning in frustration as I fought against the unidentifiable creature.

"Let her go!" I screamed, finally making some progress. It didn't even calculate that if I helped Fai, she would go right back to killing me. 

I found Bowtie, which had been blown by the bite of my mysterious lightning outburst. I grabbed it, blade closest to my tightly balled fist. Before I could hack down into the murky river, the greenish water was broken by a light so bright my eyes took a second to adjust. It was a vivid amber, separated by a black slitted pupil down the middle.

The voice in my head picked up to a record crescendo, so loud my hands recoiled from Fai to clamp around my ears. I shrieked, terrified of what was happening. 

CADEN!! CADEN!! CADEN!! CADEN!! CADEN!! CADEN!! CADEN!! 

"SHUT UP!" I roared, slamming my hands into my temples, dropping Bowtie. "Shut up, shut up, shut up, shut up!!!"

My knees buckled, and I fell into the river, which was now darkening into an oily black that made my stomach churn.

I felt chills scamper down my spine, and all of my nerves go on high alert, the blood from my shoulder surrounding my body like a despicable aura. Radiating into the monster's nostrils, attracting him to feast on my horrified body. I clamped my hand on the shoulder, praying it would restrict the blood flow.

Fear gripped my stomach and froze my skin, anticipation sinking into every inch of my body, the struggle for breath barely creeping into my lungs. The water was eerily still despite the harsh current, pushing me towards the cloud of blood in the river, which I was frantically trying to swim away from.

I found a hand hold from the first time I decided to take a dip in this murder river, and sunk my hand into it, clinging for dear life.

Silence.

I slowly swam up, against the current. The sunlight glistened through the murky top of the river. Using one pained arm to swim, and the other clamped to stop the blood, I wasn't getting very far before I saw the evocative amber eyes burst open in front of me.

I screamed, a flurry of red tinted bubbled being created in between the monster and I.

I swam away from it, and a numb glint flashed through his lethal irises. i managed to the top, and sucked in oxygen.

"Dalton!!" I shrieked through the water that was flooding in through the sides of my mouth, interrupting my intake of oxygen and my shriek for help.

I felt ogre-like hands wrap around my solid torso, pulling me down, expanding the blanket of bubbles, holding my frantic screams as I dived down into the impossible waves, knowing the ending of my life was fixing to play before my eyes.

A/N:

So, I'm sorry for the length, but I actually have a good excuse this time!!

WattPad clearly didn't want this chapter to be released.

'Cause when I published it the first time, it deleted half of it for NO REASON WHATSOEVER!! WattPad is a douche. So, I basically had to rewrite from the time that Dearest Caden had his lightning outburst and Fai flew into the river. Yeah, it was originally around 1.5k, but WattPad had other plans.

Anyways, I hope you enjoyed, and chapter 6 will be released relatively soon.

-FFC 

P.S.

Don't forget to check out Mr. Wreckage, eagerly awaited sequel to Mr. Average. Mr. Wreckage will be released October 10th! Which is in three days. THREE!!!